Empowering youth people through capacity building, training of skills and advocacy to foster self reliance. The organisation is a key player in community development initiatives targeting to support interventions that will reduce child suffering and alleviate poverty through Integrated Youth...
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Empowering youth people through capacity building, training of skills and advocacy to foster self reliance. The organisation is a key player in community development initiatives targeting to support interventions that will reduce child suffering and alleviate poverty through Integrated Youth Development Programme (IYDP). The organisation is starting to implement a Child Centred Community Development (C3D) Model, a shift from the present partially welfare approaches it has been using to involve communities in development. It is a child- centred approach which aims at putting a child at the centre of the community development. C3D Model seeks to make a child a partner representing the whole family as a unit and involving the wider community’s participation in positive impacting and sustainable transformational development
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SAO Kenya is a registered non-profit community oriented development organisation with over seventeen years experience in Kenya. The organization was founded and registered in Kenya in 1991 as a development arm of Baptist Convention of Kenya providing child sponsorship programme in Kenya. In 2006,...
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SAO Kenya is a registered non-profit community oriented development organisation with over seventeen years experience in Kenya. The organization was founded and registered in Kenya in 1991 as a development arm of Baptist Convention of Kenya providing child sponsorship programme in Kenya. In 2006, the organization was formally registered as a non-governmental organization under Kenya's Non-Governmental Organizations Act. It works with poor communities by building their capacities, enabling them to identify and implement their own projects in three regions of Eastern, Western and Central in Kenya. The organisation is a key player in community development initiatives targeting to support interventions that will reduce child suffering and alleviate poverty through Integrated Youth Development Programme (IYDP). The organisation is starting to implement a Child Centred Community Development (C3D) Model, a shift from the present partially welfare approaches it has been using to involve communities in development.
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Youth have been given opportunities in peer education, training of skills, collaboration and networking. They have further been involved in project design and management of their own projects.

The anticipated results of the project will be: 1) Reduction in child mortality through...
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Youth have been given opportunities in peer education, training of skills, collaboration and networking. They have further been involved in project design and management of their own projects.

The anticipated results of the project will be: 1) Reduction in child mortality through improved access to primary health care services for youth; 2) Improved access to HIV prevention, care and treatments services among youth and women as a result of behaviour change interventions, information sharing, counseling and sensitization; 3) Improved food security situation of poor and vulnerable households as a result of access to sustainable agricultural services; 4) Improved income situation of poor households and youth as a result of active engagement in identification and implementation of income and employment generation projects; 5) Enhanced advocacy capacity of parents, teachers and the community to protect and promote the rights of children at family, school and community levels; 6) Enhanced capacity of community-based organizations to design and implement quality and sustainable child-focused projects.
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